Upcoming Short Term Trips
Short-Term Trips 2023
Whether you have been given the gifts of mercy and justice, are a college student looking for a missions internship, or looking to use your business skills for the Kingdom of God; there are a variety of needs and opportunities to serve internationally.
TEAM JAPAN
Lilyan Souza is leading a team to Japan to encourage and to pray for the work of Missions to the World (MTW) of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), our church denomination. The team plans to go in mid-July of 2023. Team leader: Lilyan Souza.
Other Short-term Opportunities
Global Missions Conference
Thank You for a Great Conference!
2022 Global Missions Conference: November 4-6
Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” John 20:21
Current Information: This year’s conference was November 4-6, 2022. Thank you to everyone who made this year’s conference amazing! We hope to see you next year as we learn about God’s great commission together.
Faith Promise is vital for supporting our global missions work for the upcoming year.
Make a pledge to Faith Promise, or give now and support our global missions work.
Get Involved
Missions is calling the world to worship the One True God and at FPC, we support the work of missions in a number of ways. Fueled by a passion for God’s glory, empowered by the Holy Spirit, FPC commits to sharing the Gospel and making disciples cross-culturally so that Christ-honoring church grow among the nations. We desire to raise up and send out long-term and short-term missionaries from our own congregation to plant indigenous gospel-centered, self-sustaining churches. We also financially support missionaries whose works align with our goals and priorities.
- Attending the annual Global Missions Conference (November 4-6, 2022)
- Receiving missionary newsletters
- Serving on the Global Missions Team
- Giving toward Faith Promise (You must indicate that you are designating your gift toward ‘Global Missions, Faith Promise’). All of our financial support for our work is mainly raised through our annual Faith Promise giving. Once a year, during our Missions Conference week, we ask our congregation to pledge financial commitments beyond what they give to our regular annual budget. These pledges collectively become our Faith Promise, or missions budget, for the year.
For the safety of many of our international missionaries serving in areas that are hostile to the gospel of Jesus Christ, we do not list their names or organizations on our website.
- Teaching ESL to Immigrants/Refugees
- Helping with the Ipswich Refugee Program
- Serving at the new Bangladesh church plant in Lynn, MA
- Working with local college ministries
- Short-term| Whether you have been given the gifts of mercy and justice, are a college student looking for a missions internship, or looking to use your business skills for the Kingdom of God; there are a multiplicity of needs and opportunities to serve internationally.
- 2023 Short-Term Trips
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TEAM BANGLADESH
Join us for a 1-week trip to Dhaka! We will provide support for the Business Development Center (BDC), help equip the Connecting Business and Marketplace to Christ (CBMC) team for evangelism and disciple-making, interact with pastors about how to start a church in Dhaka, and introduce the team to the city of Dhaka, which is the most populated city in the world. Led by: Kent Kusel (kentkusel@gmail.com). The team will be leaving on January 20, 2023.
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TEAM ARAB WORLD
We will be leading a trip to visit some of our brothers and sisters located in the Arab World in the Spring of 2023. For more information on the developing purpose and plans for the trip, please contact the church office.
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TEAM GREECE
Our goal is to be the “hands and feet” of the Greek church and a Christian organization that work with Muslim refugees. The trip will be June 23 or 24 through July 3rd of 2023. We also want to visit for a few days to encourage and distribute Bibles with Angela and Meletis Meletiadis, our missionaries in Greece. Team Leader: Dan Oh.
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TEAM JAPAN
Lilyan Souza is leading a team to Japan to encourage and to pray for the work of Missions to the World (MTW) of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), our church denomination. The team plans to go in mid-July of 2023. Team leader: Lilyan Souza.
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- Mid/Long-term| Ultimately, FPC is praying to identify, train, and send individuals and/or families to serve long-term in one of our Epicenters. If you are interested in long-term missions or have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.
- Browse mid- and long-term opportunities with MTW.
- Steps to becoming an MTW missionary
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MTW 1 % Campaign: Our denomination’s missions organization, Mission To the World (MTW), recently began a campaign to challenge every PCA congregation to pledge 1% of their members to global missions. FPC has joined this 1% pledge and we would ask that you pray for God to raise up global missionaries in our congregation and congregations across the world. You will hear more information about the 1% campaign in the coming months leading up to the global missions conference.
Contact the church office if you would like to learn more about global missions at FPC or see how you can get involved.
Core Values
Gospel-Centered
We want to be faithful to the spreading of the gospel message so that more people would come to know the salvation of Jesus Christ. We believe that the gospel is what changes everything and we want it to be the heart of all of our cross-cultural endeavors. While we believe that social justice and relief work is crucial to global missions work, our primary goal is to plant gospel-centered indigenous churches that plant more gospel-centered churches.
Recklessly Dependent
We believe that God calls us away from the status quo and to take risks by faith in His strength for the sake of God’s eternal Kingdom. The Lord calls His people to step out in faith that seems reckless. Yet that reckless abandonment to the will of the Lord brings glory and honor to Him. Our focus is to bring the gospel to the most unreached areas of the world, and we believe that is only through the empowerment and equipping of the Holy Spirit that we will be able to endure all things for the sake of God’s elect among the nations.
Altogether Integrated
We believe that global missions involves the whole of congregational life in the work of the Great Commission as an equipping and sending church. Global missions is not simply a compartmentalized ministry exclusively for specialists; rather, global missions should involve a comprehensive involvement from all of the members of our congregation.
Strategically Focused
By refining our direction through prayer, a Biblical assessment of global needs, and our church’s unique calling, our church seeks to focus our global missions sending, praying and giving in three strategic areas (“Epicenters”): Arab World, Bangladesh, and China. Moreover, we want to have meaningful relationships and intentionally support and communicate with each of our missionaries. Each of our missionaries has come through and been sent out by our church.
Passion for God’s Glory
Ultimately, we are fueled by a desire to extend the worship of God among the nations. The glory of God is the chief end of all our endeavors and the source of all of our joy.
Epicenters
After evaluating what our church feels called to do in the world, we established that we wanted to focus on three things: 1) pioneer gospel access to where there is little or no access; 2) go deeper where we already have invested; 3) focus on places where there are concrete opportunities for our members that will make it possible for everyone to be engaged in global missions. Moreover, we wanted to concentrate our efforts by giving more support and resources to our strategic partners in three strategic geographical locations (“Epicenters”).